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If you have even half of what ShoeMoney, you should be making a good living by now. How many does ShoeMoney have? The exact figures are unknown, but he has given us a few clues. In February 2006, ShoeMoney posted about service frustrations with GoDaddy.com. He had over 1,500 domains on that post. Today, he posted his reviews of the GoDaddy service but now has over 10,000 domains!

A quick calculation shows that ShoeMoney registered approximately 101 new domains per day during this period. That’s one hardworking domain owner! Guess we’ll never know how many ShoeMoney really owns! Does anybody out there care to share how many domains they own?

Ok, you just finished reading 5 Tips About Registering Niche Domains. Your evaluations laid before you a game plan of acquiring and developing as many domains as humanly possible. What’s next?

Cost is a big factor for beginners. You can certainly find a cheap domain registrar or look for special deals but ultimately, the biggest cost to the domain game is hosting it. Most hosting fees can usually run you almost 12 times the registration cost annually. But there is a solution. (more…)

Warning: This story may be a tangent, but an interesting one!

MonthlyDollar.com seeks to become the internet’s first employee. Intrigued by that claim, a visit was made to find a site that may be as innovative as The Million Dollar Homepage. The underlying concept is as simple and as old as the internet itself - get people to pay you to link to them! There’s a little bit (more…)

More and more sites about Niche Marketing are popping up on a daily basis. And why not? It is getting to be a popular topic. Those who think this is a get-rich-quick opportunity should take caution. You might get lucky, but what you really need is consistency. For people starting out in Niche Marketing, Joan Chua has a blog that can teach you the fundamentals.

Niche Maketing 101 is a blog maintained by Joan. But here’s the problem, none of the articles are written by Joan. The articles are all reposted materials with attributions to the corresponding authors. Weird, right? Let’s not debate whether this is ethical and end up overlooking a gift-horse in the mouth. Head on over for some great education about picking keywords, researching niches, executing your game plan and (more…)

Niche webmasters know that success is a numbers game. Who would not prefer having 20 niche sites out there gathering Adsense clicks/impressions, converting affiliate links rather than just 5? We are not talking about site qualities here. Rather, the low maintenance nature of niche sites means that webmasters have more free time to start up other projects.

But should you always register new domains for each new site you put up? Cost can become a big factor too. We will get to the tips on costs in a later article, but are there any discernable advantages to registering new domains? What should you check out before committing? Here are 5 tips to help you with the decision! Feel free to join the discussion too! (more…)

Jeffrey Strain of Personal Finance Advice has become an inspiration to many new niche webmasters. Along with his partner Nate Sanden, they have been operating a very successful personal finance forum - Saving Advice. They are even giving out free blogs via the website. Now that’s a great way to build a community!

Most notably in the niche community are his recent posts about his satellite sites (what he calls niche websites). His first post started in November and consistently (more…)

The Internet Cashflow Guy had been posting about his process of coming up with an idea for a niche website. The execution was shrouded in secrecy but today finally lifted the covers of his first niche website Orchid Care Info.

The site was beautifully designed and color-matched to the petals, leaves and stems of an orchid. Asthetically, it was a very pleasing tour. The subject matter was really, REALLY focused. I wondered what was the rationale behind the choice. Search engine promotion would be (more…)

Eric Scalf of MindBlog, a blog that seeks to help amateur bloggers, has decided to step into the world of creating a single page on a particular subject. The goal is to monetize this one page with a blend of Amazon affiliate links, Chitika and Adsense. His first attempt on halogen lamps is worth a peek.

In the long run, using a dedicated domain name as opposed to running the page off Eric’s personal blog domain, fyreplace.com, should provide benefits from an SEO perspective. The tradeoff would be additional costs to register / host the domain. An upcoming post will cover some tips on this aspect of creating a single page SEO.

Max, at HowToBePoor.com, is a budding niche website marketer who had been blogging about his progress. He blogged about his ups and downs, and recently experienced problems with Adsense that negated some of his hardwork. But you can’t keep a good man down. Max has solid ideas and knows how to generate useful content, organize and present it to attract and keep visitors. You can see examples of his works at BasementFlooded.com or MyCarWontStart.net.

Max shared why Adsense decided to ban his account, and was looking for alternative solutions. At least the sites were not be blacklisted on the search engines yet. If you have an idea for Max, do share with him on his blog.